Enough, yet not enough, about Garner (letter to the editor)

When are we going to stop hearing and reading your publications on Eric Garner?

You newscasters make him out to be an altar boy. If you're going to publish, give all the facts about him and his doings:

Tell the public there was a black sergeant on the scene. She gave the command to take him down and never stopped it. Why isn't she ever mentioned?

Tell all that he was arrested 31 times prior and was surely aware of the arrest drill.

Tell all that he resisted arrest and was over 6 ft. tall, 350 lbs. and suffered from a respiratory illness.

Tell us he was illegally selling cigarettes and the store owner called the police.

Tell us he had six children, all from different women.

Tell us in detail what his 31 crimes consisted of.

Tell us how the $6 million-plus payoff was arrived at, and how much stone-face Sharpton's cut was.

No, I tell you, to look closely at where the officers arm really was. It was around his neck alright, but it was just below the chin, not his neck, not a choke-hold.

Tell us why this incident deserves to be front page news for three years. President Kennedy's assassination did not get this much attention. Why this man?

I ask now, why are you media people insisting on publishing this story? Are you trying to increase the racial tension between blacks and whites? If this situation was reversed -- white man and black cop, would you give it three years of press?